• Melllvar@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 years ago

    There was a vampire movie, I forget what it’s called, but part of the lore was that vampires were only affected by religious symbols from their original society. So showing a cross to a Muslim vampire wouldn’t work.

  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    In the Neutronium Alchemist (or one of the books in the Nights Dawn series) a vampire basically says “I was Muslim but that cross only works if you believe it works”

    E.g. it’s the fundamental belief of the person wielding it that has the “psychic” effect on the ghost/vampire/remnant.

    Edit: apparently it was a ghost who was Sunni and it’s the belief of the ghost that does it. E.g. why the crucifix had no effect on him but a crescent, for example, may have.

  • Brkdncr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Vampires existed long before the church. They just have a brain disorder that gives them a seizure when they see straight right angles. Right angles don’t really exist in nature. Humans found out this and started making crosses. Humans created the church to maintain this knowledge during the vampires long hibernation periods of around 1000 years. (Credit to author Peter Watts “Blindside”)

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I loved Blindsight (the name of the book is not Blindside) but that was one of the most ridiculous paragraphs I’ve ever read.

      The natural world is filled with right angles. Many rocks erode into perfect right angles because of their cleave points. Saplings grow at right angles to the ground. Branches of older trees are sometimes at perfect right angles to the trunk.

      Anyone who has gone on a hike sees right angles everywhere. Vampires couldn’t walk a kilometer without a seizure from naturally occuring right angles.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Nah, vampires only hibernated a generation or two. Just long enough for prey populations to grow back to sustainable levels, and just long enough forget them and begin to scoff at grandma’s crazy campfire tales.

      Peter Watts - Blindsight

      And yes, it’s hard science fiction. With a vampire ship captain. Seriously.

      Many versions free on the author’s site. Give the prologue a spin.

      https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm#Prologue